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Bo Harald

Chairman/Founding member, board member

Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,

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04 Nov 2008

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EU Trust Infrastructure and Cyber Security

Trust over IP started off to put users in charge of their data but much also because it was estimated that cyber crime annual damages was exceeding 6 trillion USD. With SSI and wallets for all verified data for all parties the risks and damages can be minimized. Much work is going on also in EU to improve cyber security - now especially in the fac...

18 July 2024 /payments /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Dance floor for all data

Data - and lately especially verified data - has for many years been a top priority in national and EU priorities. What the EU Trust Infrastructure's already de-facto EUDI-interoperable wallets mean in terms of benefits for all parties (with small investments) should be properly evaluated in all member state digital strategies - and then lead to c...

18 July 2024 /regulation /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Call it a fact wallet - not an ID-wallet

Why? Because too many still think that the wallets will be used only or mainly to identify citizens. When they in fact will serve life events not only for citizens - but also for organizations and things - with all sorts of verified data - building the identity - all the way to a digital twin (if so chosen). The state issued identification credent...

28 June 2024

Also the Product Passport should be a Verifiable Credential

Proposal to the EWC consortium (the large scale EU pilot led by Sweden and Finland). As: 1. EWC is focusing on the all-important organisation wallet (general purpose and interoperable for states, municipalities, enterprises and 3rd sector organisations). 2. All credential exchange (credentials also needed for exchange of mass data in Data spaces,...

18 June 2024 /regulation /identity Innovation in Financial Services

From the diary of a digital war veteran

- no one will be interested in that online bank (early 1980s > half a million customers were using it in Finland when Internet came) - one-time passwords are far too difficult to use (served well until replaced mostly by face) - the identification service does not belong to banks (it has been heard from the times of Venice). Adopted first for i

13 June 2024 /retail /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Time for Credential Fest

The planned MyData conference in Helsinki in May/June 2025 should carry the name Credential Fest. There first of all central and local governments should be given the opportunity to list all credentials they issue to already now already citizen and organisation wallets. Followed by lists of forthcoming ones and how they themselves use organisation...

11 June 2024 /retail /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Public sector credentials to all wallets - to cross the death walley

Picture included in my Linkedin post (used to manage them here in the past) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bo-harald-4768b51_dangerous-death-walley-one-might-of-course-activity-7192066826363625473-MfwU?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop Dangerous death walley... One might of course ask why the private sector is not yet crying out for...

08 May 2024 /retail /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Wallets galore

As many of us have seen, there is no shortage of wallets on offer. www.findynet.fi/en/ has compiled a list to support ongoing issuing, holding and verifying verified data tests - and to support the work in Open Wallet Foundation. https://lnkd.in/d_KtQNAx . Please take a look. It is impressive. One could imaging that EU member states will in many

09 April 2024 /retail /identity Innovation in Financial Services

Fresh out from the press

Fresh out from the press. Comprehensive and concrete actions described here: https://findy.fi/en/ Comprehensive with concrete actions described. Leading the way for the European Single market.

22 March 2024 /retail /identity Innovation in Financial Services

If you don't know where you are going, any road will do..

So where are we going? Do we realize that we nead leaps in productivty, in service capability, in security, in privacy, in Single Market progress and in serious lowering of costs in the public sectors? Then all countries and EU should make the strongest possible public-private efforts to get the Trust Infrastructure in place - supported by global...

13 March 2024 /retail /identity Innovation in Financial Services

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